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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928.
TO-DAY'S CABLES.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON EXCHANGE MARKET.
LONDON, Jauuary 10. A considerable Blackening off in business of the Stock Exchange is "attributed to foars of further France German complications, Rubber is calmer alter in past days' indiscriminate buying. Exchanges are nervous and erratic. During the day marke reached 80,000 closing at 74,500, French franca closed at 68/45 God Belgian Irancs at 75, sterling hardening to 4'66, 1/4.
AUSIS,
ROUBLES.
NEW WHITE CONSPIRACY.
HELSINGFOR, January 16.
A telegram from Moscow enys it is officially stated that as extensive
DUTCH CAST INDIES.
Loyboy, January 16, The Dutch Indies lonn of fivé miliious sterling, six per cent. at 98 per cent, is britu anderwritten. A million thereof is reserved for Holland where it wil be offend at an equivalent price based on the rate of exchange of the day for sterling..
CEYLON DOMESTIC
SERVANTS...
THE CHINA MAIL.
COMPLUSORY REGISTRATION.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS
NATIONAL LOANS,
SUBSCRIBERS to the National Loans publ (1914), and the Eleventh Year the Third Year of the Re
of Republic (1922) are hereby noted that drawings for the re demtion of the above Loans will be helchis year as follows
It will be remembered, says the Times of Ceylon, that some montbe ago a compulsory registration of ser rants in Colombo was begun and there was a big ruth at the Registrar's Office at Mandann. la fact the rush was so great that servante, bad to attecember, 1923: 6th Drawing t Third Year Loan ($2,750,000); remption begins 31st December: tend the office more than once before they were attended to. Not only cla new servants apply for registration, 10 May, 1923: 1st Drawing of the but those who had already been rig istered applied to have their booke brought up to date.
There were now about 60,000 re gistered servants, both male and female, in Colombo, Thote servants who had books have all had trem
venth Year Loan ($1,000,000); rempljon begins 31st May: 10 November, 1923; 2nd Drawing Year Loan the Eleventh 1000,000; redemption begins
November.
The sixth redemption Instalment ($48,740), due on the Fourth Year
themaining undraws Bonds will connce on 12th April.
service n the above three Loa, is conducted independently, 'andms not part, of the National Coldalad-Loan Service.
FA. AGLEN, Inspector General of Custom:.
Insrate General of Customs, ing. 6th January, 1923.
White onspiracy has been discovered in the Urals aml West Siberia. The returned, but there were still some Loais the final one, no Drawing Social Revolutionists Okalitch, Chichevalty, Ostravsky and Kubore are mem- new gervants to whom baoks had to wilke place; but redemption of bers of ac nimi committee at organisation which aimed at the establish be issued. In the course of the work ment of a non Communist republic with Nesnamolkarssich us military leader. the Regia for has came across many instances of ex convicte ngemploy. Over three hundred were arrested...
ed in bungalows. This is due to the fact that enquiries are mads and finger prints, token of all new servants Applying for registration. When it is discovered that a servant has been convisted the employer is informed the fact. Should he, however, be willing to continue the servant in hie niplov. he is registered, but the Face That he has been convicted and the offence commifted is entered in the book. Enquiries regarding new servants have now beer completed and they are being registered. It is estimated that about 2,000 new servants were supplied with books since the beginning of last month, and there is a similar number still to be dealt with.
LONDON TO DI INCHESTER,
NEW FLYING RECORD.
LONDON, January 16.
A London to Manchester flying reword was established by a British maching carrying five passengers. The tion occupied was eighty-four minutes over a di-tones of 185 miles.
MURDERED COLDSTREAMS.
STRONG ACTION TAKEN.
Loxbox, January 16:
The Registrar informed a newspaper presentative that it is necessary for a servant who applies for registration It is feained in Londor that the other Cold Stream guardsman, murder-to attend his office twice. On the onely assaulted by Turks at Constantinople has died. The British authorities first occasion all particulars regarding with the approval of the Turkish administration, are taking strong action to him are taken and enquiries are made. bring the assailants to justice..
UNEMP. GYM› NT AT [OME.
Caemployment last week improved by 13,000.
CORRESPONDENCE.
'HONGKONG'S TELEPHONE
SYSTEM.
LONDON, January. 16.
operator, which menas, that it is in staat and untiring, showe no favour, and that for 24 hours of the day.
It has all the advantages of the common battery system with none of its disadvantages.
The receiver is lifted and the dial (To the Editor of the " China Mall."]
turned to spell out the number want Sir-I have read the cored and, immediately and invariably, respondence and articles in your the caller hears a ringing tone, indicat paper re the shove, and would like,ing that the called party is being rang. by your courtesy, to express my or he hears the bury tobe, telling him opinion regarding the system best that the pasty wanted in talking to suited to the requirements of your nomer ne else. Ta other words, in five City.
more
He is usually asked to call in five or six
days and when he does so, provided there is no hing against him, he is registered. In the casand old servants their books are endorsed and returned to them in a few minutes.
A WOMAN'S FIGURE AND COMPLEXION.
arn best preserved by natural menos.. Taken when necessary, Pinkottes sently waist ature and ther fore are every wan's neel They induce daily re gularity. banish bidousness and sick headaches, clear the skin and purify the breath. Your chemist ulls Pinkettes or post free, te its the vial, from Dr. Williams Medicino Co, Kiangas fond, Sharghai
battery plant. In the latter. plant all the wires nad cables must be seconds he knows whether or not he amul covered, as in the automatic,
be much I see it is proposed to replace the will get connected. If there is delay and the mass of wires and cable will l greater than in the present magneto" heard by a it is owing to the man at the other
automatio. All the inaint cordia **common battery " telephone end nos nae wering promptly.
Then again, the instant the receiver through which every connection must system, and that it is argued, that, owing to the small remuneration of is repinced the connection is acvered pass, and generally reeknard as the
weakest link in the manual system exp.usice. When you want to put through a operators. the
must be specially treated-and there not series of calls, you depress the re "Automatic ajetro it justified.
ceiver hook for a areond and dial the are practically an acrds in the automatic system. The in anual jacks into which plugs are to be inserted, which in & 5,000 me. office will nuniber about £5.030, and, in a 7,000 line office will number about 161 0 0, is that it may sell service to the community. The aim of a company such na additional lines, branch exach with three springs, cannot he as of good standing should be to sell the obangre, party lines, etc., which slow closed at all. The relays of a mannal best possible service.
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This appears to me to be very short. next number, knowing yan will get it. Every manual system miserably fails sighted policy.
this operation-the signals will be The reason for the existence of a telephone company or other authority too busy to give effect to them.
In addition, all auxiliary eer.ices,
down a manual aye'em, are, likewice system must be all specially treated And cloard, as in the automatic It is acknowledged that the present reddered instantly and reliably.
The Company bring agrecable, stem, which, in addition, must switchboard is worn out and that a system capable of giving a better apparently, to instal a common have ite electro mechanical switche service must be installed. The Com-; battery system, must have faca i the similarly treated and encloved. In pany has been advised to icrtal a question of improved insulation on the automatic system there is much common battery eystein, and it may the outside plaut, and there is more apparatus requiring special be asked, "By how much will this practicably, no enhanced cost there aftertien bas mach lees cable The aut matic apparatus is, however, as improve the service?" The service by a change to automatic working. given by the existing and the prepos The automatio system will give, atcmblesi in compset masses which can ed system will be fagdamentally least, the same saving due to the much more efficiently protected. eimilar and improved earv.ca will be elimination of the primary batterics in both cases the zwischroom will re- one of degree only.
at sub-stations and the greater power quire to be specially designed and equipped with the ecessary op paratus for keeping the air at a suitable temperature and a dry an possitle.
The problem is not a now one an has been successfully met in many important installations auch Manila, Honolulu, Havana and other towns in Cuba, also several towns in India, Havana having an equipment
The common battery system will plus le a light at the automatic ex reduce E' penera by elimianting change will equal the smaller power primary batterie at subrcrib re plus more light of the manasl.
The maintenarce cast of the two offices; will enable the ope ator to auswer calls more quickly, and super switchboards will be equal. This has visa connections more efficiently, and, again been proved by comparing therefore, attend to a greater number costs in a manual and an antomatic of lines. But, it will not eliminate office in the same town in Canada · delay in answering calle, nor will it We are, therefore, faced only by the ensure prompt disconnection when first cost of the two a stems, where it connection is finished and recall an will be found that the automatic ex- of 30,000 lira. operator for a second call. There will seeds the manual by about 50 per cent. still bo uncertainty regarding the busy Against that we have practically the signal and delay in receiving it in entire eaving of the operators wages, "fact, the new system will continue all which should suffice, at least, so pay the werknees due to the fallibility interest, and depreci tion on this
difference. of human nature.
Again, from the Company's point Among other advantages it should of view, in 1980, when the license be noted that the automatic system ip expires, what will it base to sell? peculiarly suited to a town like yours, What can it put forward as a reason with its population of many nation for craving an extension of the licence alities having different languages and Only a faily new switchboard of an dialects. It has also been found, is the Canadian "town already releared obsolescent if not an obsolete type.
Practically no progressive adminis to, that the faults on the manual tration to-day is installing such a witchboard were 20 per cent, higher system, except for reasons of policy, than on the automatic, which natur
ally incresson the service efficiency of in exchanges of any importance.!
There is only one system capable the latter.
of giving atiafactory service to the The only additional atatement War, and that is the autotast's. That against the automatic that requires Tervice cannot be challenged. It is consideration is that the bumld something distinctly different frem olimateof Hongkong is inimical to that that rendered by the magneto or com system; Again, tha is only a gara mon battery systems. It is a machine tiomol degres, as it tells also against service instead of by a human the efficitnoy of the common
The Bombay Autbesities bave alte Placed an order lately for an 11,000 line installation, and it cannot bo assumed that they have adopted the autemnatio system without most care- ful investigation into the suitability of that system to their requirements. In a word, it can to said of the automatic system that it on meet every condition of Service in a manner that the manual system cạn not approximate.
I regret such a long letter is new:: sary to do justies to the subject at
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Yours, etc
W. AITKEN, Member, Institution of Electrica Engineere
Associate, American Institute o mctrical Engineers, do
Author, "Manual of the Telepho Author,"Automatio Telephon
London, Desember Off
System.
INAR ACADEMY, SC LAND- TARLES S. DOUGALL, MA., foiy-Eglinton Fellow, Glasgow Unity.) ileadmaster, which re on September next, providsi at a uine cust a complete HIGH SOL EDUCATION hall Depart androm 1 3ears of age upwardly Ill Prospectus may be had un into the E-MASTER, CHOS. J. YOUNG, F. U. 1.8, Sery.
Croup.
young child is useoptible to.
eri Dont wait until this frendiftil dattacks your little one before you prfor it. It comes in the night whou
shops are usuilly closed, an
a
theo would be a warning. Oot Chamberlin Ough Temedy It never fails, nets quickly solutoly harmless. For sale by alists and Storakecpos
at
-TO-DAY'S- ADVERTISEMENTS.
MARINE ENGINEERS QUIED OF
CHINA, AN
Hongkong Branch.
Regular Monthly Meeting will be sk at tho Gulli Ofco, Sailor Home, on FRIDAY, 101ir instant, et d o'glock P.M. BUSINESS Layortant Correspondence and (tonemal
W. J. STOKES, '
Branch Everetary.
"Hongkong, January 17, 1023.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Underslaned havoreceived instruc- tona to sell by Public Auction, (For account of the Concerned), ~
ng
"
SATURDAY,
Janitary 20th, 1923, at 10.30 a.m. at cadir Sales Rooms, No. B, - One Visar Hosch, Corner af Ico Hauso Stroot,
A few lots of Booka bolonging to the Estate of the live Mг.. E. A. Howett U.M.G. Comprising tres M. Maj
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41 vols Who Century; a
The Century Magazino
80.. 40.
Alka
Surley Houshold fumiture removed
to là Room for convenience of sala
gud general sundries.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, January 17th, 1923,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have revolved in- structions to sell by Public Auction.
MONDAY, January 12, 1833,
commousing at 5.15 p.m. it their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street A Valuable Collection of about 1500 Unused Stamps
Mostly British Coloniala, King'a hoad in mint condition
And Hongkong
06 Cents Yellow Brown (Uaused)
On View: Saturday the 20th January Visas: —Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
The "CONTROLEX"
Self Winding Toll-tale Clock, Will prove you whether your watchman has done his duty or not as its checking is fault- less. It should be used by all. the factories, work shops, godowns, banks, etc.
rther informations, Apply to the Distributors, ULLMANN & CO QUEEN'S ROAD,.
HONGKONG.
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DAILY at 5.30 & 9 p.m.
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